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Toronto Argonauts facing a tough 2021 regular-season CFL schedule
The CFL schedule maker has done Ryan Dinwiddie and the Toronto Argonauts no favours.
The league kicks off its abbreviated 14-game ’21 schedule Thursday night after cancelling the ’20 campaign due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Toronto will play its opening two contests on the road against the Calgary Stampeders (Saturday night) and the defending Grey Cup-champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Aug. 13).
Dinwiddie will make his CFL head-coaching debut in a familiar setting. He served as Calgary’s quarterback coach (2016-19) before being hired by Toronto.
“No one has more respect for coach Hufnagel (Stampeders GM/president John Hufnagel) and coach Dickenson (head coach Dave Dickenson) than myself,” Dinwiddie said during a recent videoconference. “And my best friends are on that staff but we won’t talk much, we’ll talk more after (the season opener).